http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 Utility of the hypertriglyceridemic waist phenotype in the cardiometabolic risk assessment of youth stratified by body mass index http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:11673 /=90th percentile for age and gender with concomitant triglyceride concentrations >/=1.24 mmol L(-1) . Cardiometabolic risk profiles were compared using MANCOVA. RESULTS: Normal weight participants with the HTWP had significantly higher levels of C-reactive protein 2.6 +/- 0.4 vs. 1.6 +/- 0.3 mg L(-1) (P < 0.05) and cardiometabolic risk scores (1.3 +/- 0.3 vs. -0.7 +/- 0.2 and 2.1 +/- 0.4 vs. -0.5 +/- 0.2; both P < 0.05) compared with those of a normal weight without the HTWP. Overweight/obese participants with the HTWP had significantly higher C-reactive protein levels (3.5 +/- 0.6 vs. 2.6 +/- 0.5; P < 0.05) as well as both cardiometabolic risk scores (1.6 +/- 0.6 vs. 0.9 +/- 0.2 and 2.2 +/- 0.6 vs. 0.8 +/- 0.2; both P < 0.001) when compared with overweight/obese participants without the HTWP. CONCLUSIONS: The HTWP may serve as a simple and clinically useful approach to identify youth at increased cardiometabolic risk.]]> Wed 07 Apr 2021 13:56:58 AEST ]]> Utility of three anthropometric indices in assessing the cardiometabolic risk profile in children http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:11674 /= 0.5 increased the odds by 5.2 (95% confidence interval 2.6 - 10.3) of having increased cardiometabolic risk. Similar associations were observed for BMI and WC. Both BMI-z and WHtR were fair predictors of increased cardiometabolic risk, although BMI-z demonstrated the best trade-off between sensitivity and specificity, 76.1% and 63.6%, compared with 68.1% and 65.5% for WHtR. Cross-validation analysis revealed that BMI-z and WHtR correctly classified 84% of individuals (kappa score = 0.671, 95% CI 0.55, 0.79). The sensitivity of the cut-points suggests that 89.3% of individuals were correctly classified as being at risk with only 10.7% misdiagnosed whereas the specificity of the cut-points indicated that 77.8% of individuals were correctly identified as being healthy with 22.2% of individuals incorrectly diagnosed as being at risk. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest that WHtR provides similar cardiometabolic risk estimates to age and sex adjusted BMI.]]> Wed 07 Apr 2021 13:56:58 AEST ]]>